Tag: Charlie Hebdo

KARACHI, PakistanAt least four people, including two police officers, have been killed and over 100 injured as clashes between police and supporters of a far-right religious party continued in Pakistan on Tuesday.The Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party has been staging protests in major Pakistani cities, including the capital Islamabad, for ...

Police in the eastern city of Lahore on Monday arrested Saad Rizvi, the leader of an influential far-right Islamist party, to "maintain law and order," said Ghulam Mohammad Dogar, chief of Lahore police. Rizvi, who heads the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party, is demanding that the government expel the French ambassador over ...

The recent three terrorist attacks in France point to a new generation of extremists perpetrated by religiously inspired individuals, operating individually and using generally simple weapons, requiring little skill.As France’s polarized debate that pits religious freedom against secularism continues, the European country’s problem with extremism has come back into ...

PARISStraight after France was targeted by a series of terrorist attacks this fall, President Emmanuel Macron met with other EU leaders to address the bloc's response to the threat.Macron’s initial reaction included a promise to protect the right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad and even projection of the controversial ...

Issued on: 13/11/2020 - 11:47 In silence and mourning, France marked five years since 130 people were killed by Islamist extremists who targeted the Bataclan concert hall, Paris cafés and the national stadium in a series of coordinated attacks. The night of carnage on November 13, 2015, which saw ...

Issued on: 12/11/2020 - 09:46 Five years after a squad of jihadist killers carried out France's deadliest peacetime atrocity, the country is again on its highest security alert following a spate of attacks blamed on Islamist radicals. The night of carnage on November 13, 2015 saw 130 people killed ...

Political cartoons are a treasured French tradition, going back to the revolution of 1789. Ever since, intrepid caricaturists have risked life and liberty to oppose authoritarian regimes and defend freedoms through their drawings. President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that tradition when he said, “We will not give up cartoons, drawings, ...

PARISInsulting cartoons published by the Charlie Hebdo magazine about Prophet Muhammad and Islam are similar to those drawn about Jews in the 1930s in far-right or German Nazi magazines, said a French sociologist. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Raphael Liogier, professor at the Institut d'etudes politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, said cartoons published ...

Issued on: 02/11/2020 - 16:32 In spite of President Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to calm the controversy over France’s right to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, protests against France continue.  Reactions to the interview Macron gave to the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television service on 1 October have been mixed. Macron ...

French schools reopened Monday for the first time since the beheading of a teacher who opened a class debate on free speech by showing students caricatures of the prophet of Islam, in mourning and under tight security for a national homage. Samuel Paty was killed ...